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[[File:xena.jpg|frame|Xena and her [[Les Yay|li'l buddy]] Gabrielle]]
▲{{quote|''"[[In a World|In a time]] of ancient Gods, Warlords, and Kings,<br />
▲A land in turmoil cried out for a hero.<br />
The power.
▲She was Xena, a mighty princess forged in the heat of battle.<br />
The
The
Her courage will change the world."''|'''[[Opening Narration]]'''}}
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** Autolycus being made to punch himself in the face by Xena while she's inhabiting his body brings to mind a certain [[Evil Dead|other role]] that Bruce Campbell has had.
* [[Adrenaline Makeover]]: Gabrielle's haircut in Season 4.
* [[Aliens Speaking English|Aliens Speaking Greek]]: Xena travels the world, but never has any problems communicating with people. While one might initially assume that she's merely multilingual (she has many skills, after all), the fact that Gabrielle and even Joxer don't have language problems imply that everyone is actually speaking Greek
:Semi-averted in that during classical period throughout much of the Mediterranean world, Greek was the common tongue. So much so that one variant, ''Koine'', is the Greek word for common. Of course once Xena and Gabrielle travel to Asia all bets are off.
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: In a world full of traditional Greek names, we had the distinctly French and relatively normal-sounding Gabrielle (though it was originally a Hebrew name, derived from the masculine Gabriel).
* [[All Amazons Want Hercules]]: Averted? Parodied? Amazons have crushes on Joxer in ''Lyre Lyre Hearts on Fire'' and ''Kindred Spirits'', and Joxer ain't Hercules. In fact, even when Hercules is around, so is his friend Iolaus who gets more female attention than Herc does.
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* [[Curse Cut Short]]
** In Season 3 episode "Fins, Femmes and Gems", Xena does this to Gabrielle when Gabrielle's singing a song about herself ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]).
{{quote|'''Gabrielle:''' Well, listen to my story about Gabrielle, cute little gal that's looking really swell, perfect hair, such a lovely lass, nice round breasts and a firm young-- ''([[Putting a Hand Over His Mouth|Xena covers her mouth]])''
'''Xena:''' Are you out of your ''mind''?
'''Gabrielle:''' Too loud? }}
** Amarice after Joxer and Arman laughs at her after slipping in "Animal Attraction".
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** {{spoiler|Joxer, among others.}}
** {{spoiler|Gabrielle}} in the aptly named episode "Sacrifice 2".
* [[Hide Your Lesbians]]: The show features one of the best known and longest running examples of this trope in the implied relationship between Xena and Gabrielle. Though the subtext becomes more and more explicit throughout the series, particularly during the final season, they're never officially confirmed to be anything more than [[Heterosexual Life Partners]], and both characters are seen engaged in serious relationships (in one case, even a short-lived marriage) with male characters at various points throughout the series. It should be noted, though, that in later seasons, they stopped having Temporary Love Interests
:One episode set in the modern day, with the Xena TV show existing had Xena reincarnated in one of Joxer's identical descendants, marrying Gabrielle reincarnated in one of Gabrielle's identical descendants. Their friend was Joxer reincarnated in one of Xena's identical descendants. Then, a later episode showed Ares appearing to switch them back into the bodies that look like they used to look, with the result being that Gabrielle and Xena were alive in the modern era and were about to get married as wife and wife. And they were cloned, with heavy implications that their modern day clones were a couple. And they met up as a completely separate reincarnation in the 1940's which ended up with the pretty explicit implication that Xena, reincarnated in her identical ancestor, and Gabrielle, reincarnated in her identical ancestor, would become life partners, though at the time same sex marriage was illegal. So really, Gabrielle and Xena's relationship is confirmed, it just doesn't appear to happen until their various reincarnations.
* [[High Heel Face Turn]]: It was Hercules who inspired Xena to turn a new leaf.
* [[Hijacked by Jesus]]: Although most of the gods being jerks was inherent in the premise, the universe of both ''Xena'' and ''Hercules'' is strange about this depending on the situation, especially Ares, who tends to waver between being a [[Jerkass]] and being an evil bastard, depending on the needs of the plot. Hades is usually treated as just a dark but very overworked and unappreciated ruler of the Underworld. Although the producers seemed intent on making up for lost time in the last two seasons of ''Xena''. The prophet Eli was an exceedingly thinly disguised [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]] and Xena was put on a quest {{spoiler|to kill all the Pagan gods}}.
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